I love a good TV series and the other day I watched a new Swedish series called Troll Hunters or Trolljägarna in Swedish. Robert Ashberg, a Swedish TV journalist with a lot of authority, is looking into cases in which people have been harassed online.

If you are from the UK you might be familiar with the TV series Watchdog. This was similar, but it revealed the identity of the creeps who hide behind their usernames and write insulting comments in blogs and other online forums. This kind of TV and awareness campaign is needed in more countries. Pestering other people about their lives while hiding behind a screen should be a criminal offence.

What’s your thoughts? Please comment.

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Identities are only revealed if the accused has been convicted. Otherwise they are blurred out. Their home town is given, and enough of where they live or work ends up on the video that people who know them might be able to identify them. I don’t have a problem with that at all. Those people can then decide for themselves if the show got the wrong person, but I think it’s unlikely, particularly given that demand notices are served; ID must be quite certain for that.

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